She sat, small hands curled around a cardboard cup, one of the lights
flickering, the constant hum of the halogen lights above worsening her
headache. Exhausted, she sighed, a hand coming up to move through
her hair.
His heart had failed while he slept, but she kept him breathing, kept
him alive until the ambulance came, screamed at doctors, held his
hand while his heart maintained it's forced, slow beats. He wouldn't
have lasted the night. It was a selfish snap decision. She couldn't
lose him. Hadn't she lost enough?
Would he thank her or loathe her? While he remained untouched by time,
she' be ripped apart by it. He'd live to see his wife wrinkle and decay, to
draw her final breath in her sleep, and know that his death could not be so
peaceful.
Now it was quiet. Eerily so. She licked her lip, forcing words out
after another mouthful of cold and bitter 'coffee'.
"He's going to be miserable, isn't he?"